Transition

Transition is one of the fundamental forms of movement in Hegel's logic. It designates the process by which a category or determination necessarily passes over into another, because it reaches its inner limit. Transition is not externally added but arises from the immanent development of the matter itself. In the logic of being, transition is the characteristic form of movement: one determination vanishes and is replaced by another (e.g., being — nothing — becoming). In contrast to the shining [*Scheinen*] of the logic of essence (where determinations mutually constitute one another) and to the development of the logic of the concept (where the concept explicates itself), transition is marked by the disappearance of its starting point. Transition here is not a temporal sequence but a logical necessity: what a category is in itself shows itself by its passing over into its other.